Polar-nonpolar interconnected elastic networks with increased permittivity and high breakdown fields for dielectric elastomer transducers

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 72, 2015, Pages 58428-58438

  Racles, C ^a   Bele, A ^a   Dascalu, M ^a   Musteata, V E ^a   Varganici, C D ^a   Ionita, D ^a   Vlad, S ^a   Cazacu, M ^a   Dunki S J ^b   Opris, D M ^b  

^a PETRU PONI INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Romania)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; HYDROLYSIS; MICROCHANNELS; PERMITTIVITY; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE;

DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER TRANSDUCERS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY; HIGH BREAKDOWN FIELDS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS;

SILICONES;

EID: 84943736651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra06865g     Document Type: Article

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